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Rapidly increasing end-of-life care needs: a timely warning

By Professor Geoffrey Mitchell

23 Aug 2017

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End-of-life care is not a specialty, it is everyone’s business. The rapid increase in population aging is a worldwide issue [1], although it is more pronounced in the developed world, bringing about obvious challenges. Nevertheless, a tacitly acknowledged but often ignored issue is the subsequently increasing number of people who will die annually. Etkind et al.’s [2] paper quantifies ...

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